Church Weekend Away - 30 July

This year we will be having a combined weekend away with All Saints. It will be a great time to fellowship with the morning church.

Friday 30th, July to Sunday 1st, August, 2010.

We will be heading up to Camp Kedron in Ingleside. Camp Kedron is a Christian retreat and conference centre next to beautiful Kuringai National Park. The site has great recreactional facilities including trampolining, basketball, indoor soccer, foosball, pool table and bush walking.

It will be a good time to encourage one another and study the Bible.

The theme of the weekend will be the 'Sovereignty of God':

‘Unspeakable Comfort' –
The Sovereignty of God and the Christian Life

"There is unspeakable comfort - the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates - in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good." – JI Packer

While our neighbours talk about luck or destiny, the usual response of Christians to a significant crisis in life is to appeal to God’s sovereignty. We respond to crisis or accident or disease with ‘God is in control’, as if that by itself were a comforting truth.

It is important to know that life is not “just a bunch of stuff that happens”, to use the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson. But if God is remorseless, or uncaring, or - worse – malevolent, then his being in control becomes anything but a comfort to us in affliction. After all, if God is in control, then how do we not blame him for my friend’s depression, or the fatal car accident, or whatever it is?

This series of talks will address one of the Bible’s greatest themes: the sovereignty of God. It will show what it means for us to say ‘God is in control’. We will think about how and where he has shown us this control; and we will see how it changes everything about the way we live.

1. The Comfort of Sovereign Love
2. The Grace of Sovereign Choice
3. The Peace of Sovereign Power
4. The Joy of Sovereign Hope

You don't won't to miss this weekend away so put these dates in your calendar.

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